Hackers infect 500,000 consumer routers all over the world with malware

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Infections in at least 54 countries have been slowly building since at least 2016

thanks tech industry. sitting on open vulnerabilities for years for reasons.

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Also this: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/12/glenn-greenwald-nsa-tampers-us-internet-routers-snowden

NSA adding vulnerabilities deliberately, intercepting packages and chipping routers